Britain, Beautiful, Interesting and Sometimes Strange

Haddon Hall,Derbyshire,2nd August 2019.

Built over 700 years ago on the site of one of the Roman crossing points on the River Wye, Bakewell’s five-arch bridge is one of the oldest bridges in the country.

Monsal Viadudct on the now closed Midland main line from St.Pancras to Manchester Central via the Peaks.

Mottisfont,8th June 2019.

Mottisfont,8th June 2019.

Untitled image in Miscellaneous Photos from around the British Isles (Gallery Ten) (27244)

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26757)

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26774)

Untitled image in Miscellaneous photographs from around the British Isles (Gallery Nine) -Views of Lacock Abbey & its surrounds. (26765)

Built between 1327 and 1342 the High Street gate is the main point of entry into the Cathedral Close. It housed the small lock-up jail for those convicted of misdeeds within the Liberty of the Close. Beside the gate stands the Porters Lodge.

Untitled image in A Visit to Salisbury - 10th July 2018. (25492)

Untitled image in A Visit to Salisbury - 10th July 2018. (25488)

Musicians Gallery

The River Lambourn in Welford Park.The river is a chalk stream in Berkshire. It rises in the Berkshire Downs near its namesake village of Lambourn and is a tributary of the River Kennet, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames.The upper reaches of the river are seasonal, with a perennial source derived from a number of springs located upstream of the village of Great Shefford. At times when the water table in the chalk aquifer feeding the river is high (usually between November and March) the source of the river migrates upstream. Along the bourn section of the river are located the villages of Eastbury and East Garston, while along the perennial section of the river are the villages of Great Shefford, Welford, Boxford, Bagnor, Donnington and Shaw. Below Shaw is the confluence of the River Lambourn with the River Kennet, located between Newbury and Thatcham. The River Lambourn itself has a single perennial tributary, the Winterbourne Stream, which joins it at the village of Bagnor,

A woodland walk on the Bowood Estate near Chippenham,Wiltshire.Bluebells are delightful this time of year.4th May 2018.

Palm House 18th December 2016.

Untitled image in Kew Gardens at Christmas. (22400)

Untitled image in Kew Gardens at Christmas. (22383)

National Arboretum,Westonbirt,31st October 2016.

A Flower display,Devizes 18th July 2016.The 15th Century Great Porch House is in the background.

National Arboretum,Westonbirt,31st October 2016.

St Peter's Church is the parish church of the town of Barnstaple in North Devon.Its oldest parts probably date from the 13th century. The building was enlarged, probably in 1318 when three altars were dedicated by Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter. To the nave, chancel and tower were added north and south aisles in the Perpendicular style were added later to transform a cruciform church into one of rectangular shape. These aisles were rebuilt in about 1670, but retain mural monuments of earlier date. The church has a lead-covered broach spire, said by Hoskins to be the best of its kind in England.The interior received a heavy Victorian restoration by George Gilbert Scott from 1866, and then by his son John Oldrid Scott into the 1880s,which left it "dark and dull", according to Hoskins. However, Scott refused to demolish the tower, as had been proposed by his patrons, and retained the 17th century large straight-headed and transomed windows of the north aisle.

Views around Frogmore House,8th June 2016.Royal Mausoleum containing the tombs of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British Royal Family. Consecrated on 23 October 1928, it surrounds the Royal Mausoleum on the Frogmore Estate in the Home Park at Windsor,part of which can be seen in the foreground. Since 1928, most members of the Royal Family, except for sovereigns and their consorts, have been interred here. Among those interred here are three of Queen Victoria's children (Princess Helena, 1846–1923; Prince Arthur, 1850–1942; Princess Louise, 1848–1939) as well as one former monarch (Edward VIII, 1894–1972, later the Duke of Windsor).

The Gardens at Claydon House,Buckinghamshire,8th May 2016.

On shore filtering the sun on the morning of 12th April 2016 off Falmouth.

Woodland Walk,Bowood near Chippenham,North Wiltshire 5th May 2016.The Bluebells are stunning.

Mullion Cove,Lizard Peninsula,Cornwall,28th March 2016.

A view of St.Thomas's Square,Salisbury.18th April 2018. A new school was erected in 1862, to the north-west of the churchyard in St. Thomas's Square, and this opened on 25th July 1863. By 1871 there was accommodation for 114 boys and 119 girls but attendances were 95 boys and 86 girls.A new building for 150 children was erected in 1890 and a new boys' school built in 1891. Attendances increased to 427 by 1910 but had dropped back to 331 by 1926. Under the local education authority re-organization of 1926/7 St. Thomas's became a Church of England school for 314 boys of 11 and over from all the parochial schools while the juniors and infants were transferred elsewhere.One of the schools buildings is shown in the photo.

Views of Salisbury Cathedral.8th June 2011.A view familiar to John Constable from across the Harnham Water Meadows.

Portsmouth Harbour Waterfront 8th August 2015.